Table 4.

Stepwise multiple linear regression^a for factors predicting the depressive symptoms CES-D score among male Egyptian public servants

Variables	Male public servants
	B	SE	95% CI	Standardized β
High job demands	0.22	0.02	0.17–0.27	0.23
Family structure	0.09	0.03	0.03–0.14	0.08
Job hours per day	0.02	0.01	0.01–0.04	0.08
Medical history of depression	0.26	0.04	0.18–0.34	0.16

^aThe stepwise linear regression started with a model including age, residence, education, occupation, working hours per day, job nature, additional work, job demands, job control, social support at work, household income, smoking habit, marital status, a working spouse, type of family, number of family members, number of children in the family, social support at family, medical history of chronic diseases, and past history of physician-diagnosed depression

The R² of the final model = 0.40